davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

Squash...?  Is it a chayote?  I had one for the first time in TX.  It was... ehhh. 



Yes!  And then you need to add to your list of goals, building them a ship.  Or at least part of one.  Maybe a quarterdeck platform?

I've never heard of a chayote. Sounds like one of those hallucinogenic herbs hippies use to ex-pand their consciousness out in the desert. The seed pods are from a yucca plant.

Sure, I'll build them a ship, just like the one you've built for your crew.  

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19 July - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Doll Eyeglasses

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I have purchased at least five of these action figure size round eyeglasses. They keep disappearing, so I keep buying more. I only "needed" 3 sets. Then I lost one of the figures, so I only needed two sets... which I had... or thought I had, but I somehow misplaced one of them. I carried the eyelgasses from the house to the storage shed, then got distracted looking for the figure that I couldn't find, and set the eyeglasses down... somewhere... I think... maybe.

So I purchased set three, and set it right there in this very diorama as seen here, but... it's not there.

Set four and five arrived today. I know where they are right now, because I just snapped this picture of them.

I know where I put them after I took the picture. Will they be there tomorrow? Will I remember where I put them tomorrow?

Also, I'm pretty sure at this point that I accidentally discarded two action figures plus a head and some extra clothing. As I was rummaging through the storage shed once more the other day, I remembered the box I put the stuff in "temporarily." I vaguely started to remember taking that box to the trash. It was a box that was "a convenient size" yet was always in the way and I finally decided to get rid of it. I thought it only had old newspapers and wrapping paper in it. But now I'm kind of remembering putting those figures in the box. I must have tossed the paper in there to get it out of the way. Usually I dig through boxes of paper "just in case" before doing anything with them, but I must have been in a hurry or tired or something.

The TBLeague body would cost about $80 to replace.
The TBLeague head would cost about $40 to replace... but I can't find any more of that style on eBay.
The army guy figure would cost about $90 to replace.
The TBLeague figure was wearing a Phicen dress that would cost me about $80 to replace.
The other action figure head used to be cheap on eBay - I paid about $15 - but the only one I can find now is about $40 on eBay.
I know there were some military style clothing pieces in there, so probably another $40 to replace.

Total replacement value for what I likely tossed in the rubbish dumpster at the town dump: between $350 and $400.

Yikes!

I didn't pay that much... I don't think... as I bought most of it quite a while ago. But that's what it would cost me now to replace the things I know were in there.

I gotta be more careful. And I gotta clean things up. And... I don't know what else, but whatever else it is, I need to do it.

I won't. But I need to.